Originally posted on In Gaza:
*In the old city of Homs, June 2014, speaking with Zeinat and Aymen al-Akhras who endured years of hell under the rule of militant factions. In May 2014, an agreement saw the reportedly 1,200 militants bussed out of Homs (as recently happened in Aleppo), bringing peace to the neighbourhoods they’d…
27th January 2017 Amnesty International Infographic by Prof. Tim Anderson Tim Hayward Most of us living outside Syria know very little of the country or its recent history. What we think we know comes via the media. Information that comes with the endorsement of an organisation like Amnesty International we may tend to assume is…
Originally posted on gailmalone:
The Western media names Dara’a as the birth place of the revolution, where Syrian soldiers and police fired on and killed ‘peaceful’ demonstrators. This myth remains today, 5 years on. While in Damascus we had the opportunity to interview a young soldier who was in Dara’a at the beginning of the…
13th January 2017 Afraa Dagher Syrian News The western media always tries to discriminate FSA from ISIS, calling the first “moderates” as if they were any different than “ISIS” in terms of degrading secular Syria into a theocratic state, using all forms of barbarism and atrocities. The video below is of a woman who survived…
Originally posted on Fabrication in BBC Panorama 'Saving Syria’s Children':
Update, 11 January 2017: the short clip from Saving Syria’s Children referenced in this post has been swiftly blocked on You Tube by BBC Worldwide, as has a substituted copy – see here and here. In its place I have included a link to…
9th January 2017 Graham Phillips The Truth Speaker Excerpts from this excellent debunk of one of the most prolific propaganda peddlers, churning out questionable literature for the NATO state “regime change” foreign policy experts: In 2016, I’ll be returning to my country of the UK, and there’s a man I’d certainly like to meet for…
8th January 2017 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire “Every single one of us has taken an oath to save lives regardless of political, sectarian or religious affiliation! We are neutral, impartial and humanitarian.” ~ Raed Saleh Noble words from Saleh, leader of the White Helmets, as he accepted the prestigious Right Livelihood Award on behalf of his NATO allied and Gulf…
7th January 2017 Abdo Haddad: Is Europe Shifting? Right versus Left? Or Right versus Wrong? When I first visited Poland in February 2016, President Andrzej Duda was newly elected and yet, on the plane towards Warsaw, I grabbed a local newspaper and was stunned by the amount of opposition and criticism this fresh president had…
6th January 2017 On the road out of Sukare, East Aleppo. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) Apparently, the US Left has yet to figure out that Washington doesn’t try to overthrow neoliberals. If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were a devotee of the Washington Consensus–as Counterpunch’s Eric Draitser seems to believe–the United States government wouldn’t have been calling…
6th January 2017
The Wall Will Fall 